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.\" @(#)Cns_chdir.man,v 1.3 2001/09/26 09:13:51 CERN IT-PDP/DM Jean-Philippe Baud
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.TH CNS_CHDIR 3 "2001/09/26 09:13:51" CASTOR "Cns Library Functions"
.SH NAME
Cns_chdir \- change CASTOR current directory used by the name server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <sys/types.h>
.br
\fB#include "Cns_api.h"\fR
.sp
.BI "int Cns_chdir (const char *" path )
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Cns_chdir
changes the CASTOR current directory used by the name server to expand CASTOR
pathnames not beginning with /.
This current working directory is stored in a thread-safe variable in the client.
.TP
.I path
specifies the logical pathname relative to the current CASTOR directory or
the full CASTOR pathname.
.SH RETURN VALUE
This routine returns 0 if the operation was successful or -1 if the operation
failed. In the latter case,
.B serrno
is set appropriately.
.SH ERRORS
.TP 1.3i
.B ENOENT
The named directory does not exist or is a null pathname.
.TP
.B EACCES
Search permission is denied on any component of
.IR path .
.TP
.B EFAULT
.I path
is a NULL pointer.
.TP
.B ENOTDIR
A component of
.I path
prefix is not a directory.
.TP
.B ENAMETOOLONG
The length of
.I path
exceeds
.B CA_MAXPATHLEN
or the length of a
.I path
component exceeds
.BR CA_MAXNAMELEN .
.TP
.B SENOSHOST
Host unknown.
.TP
.B SENOSSERV
Service unknown.
.TP
.B SECOMERR
Communication error.
.TP
.B ENSNACT
Name server is not running or is being shutdown.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR Castor_limits(4)
.SH AUTHOR
\fBCASTOR\fP Team <castor.support@cern.ch>
